Sharon Osbourne has opened up about the drastic measures she once took to prevent her husband, heavy metal icon Ozzy Osbourne, from consuming dr*gs and alcohol during the height of his battles with addiction.
During a recent appearance on Bunnie Xo‘s “Dumb Blonde” podcast, the conversation turned to the lengths Sharon went to in order to deter Ozzy‘s substance abuse. When the host referenced a past admission where Sharon instructed her daughter, Kelly, to defecate in one of Ozzy‘s bags of ma*****na, Sharon clarified that she wasn’t picky about which child helped her with the task.
“Or Jack, it didn’t matter to me,” she responded (via Loudwire), noting that she would use her children’s feces to contaminate “anything” she found that she didn’t want her husband consuming.
Sharon also detailed how Ozzy would attempt to conceal alcohol in places he thought were safe from her, leading to some gruesome deterrents.
“He used to hide booze in the oven because I don’t cook so he knew I’d never open the oven. So there would be bottles in there,” she continued. “I would rub it in the baby’s diaper.”
She explained that reasoning with someone who suffers from addiction is often difficult due to the physiological hold of the substances. Consequently, she felt that physically tainting the dr*gs and alcohol was the only effective way to stop him.
“As a younger woman I thought, This will stop him, it smells like s**t! He ain’t gonna drink that,” she said.
According to Sharon, the tactic was successful; when Ozzy attempted to drink from one of the tainted bottles, the smell caused him to vomit immediately.
During the same interview, Sharon said that Ozzy knew he would die soon.
She explained his mindset going into his historic final gig:
“Yeah. Two weeks before the show, they said he could probably die, and he did. But he wanted to do it so bad. He needed it. And it’s, like, ‘Whether I die in two weeks or I die in six months, I’m still dying. And I wanna go my way.’ And he did. He went like a rock star.”
She continued: “The thing is when you’ve lived your life that way, and it was, like, ‘Okay, six months more to go out the way I wanna go out.’ It’s like saying, when you get really old and somebody’s still smoking and they’re, like, 78 years of age, and you’re, like, just let him smoke. Leave him alone. He’s 78. Leave him alone. And it’s, like, he went the way he wanted to go. He knew. He knew.”
Sharon also recalled how quickly he died and her immediate realization that he was already gone:
“It was so quick,” she said. “And thank God. And I knew when they were trying to revive him, I knew. I’m, like, ‘Don’t. Don’t do it. Leave him.’ He was done. But again, he went out like a rock star. Ooh, did he ever? … He was a king. And he loved people. He loved his audience. He loved ’em so much. And even if you didn’t like his music, you couldn’t dislike him.”
